Re: Font errors with eboard and xboard

[Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl>]

On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 18:25:54 -0400, Jay Zach wrote:
> 
> About a week ago, eboard and xboard both stopped running for me with font 
> errors.  I'm running Unstable with Xorg 7.0.
> 
> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> 
> 
> jzach@ZachDell02 Thu Jul 13 ~ :) eboard
> <BareBoard::BareBoard> can't load font.
> 
> jzach@ZachDell02 Thu Jul 13 ~ :( xboard
> xboard: no fonts match pattern -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
>                    
> 
> =====
> Files section from xorg.conf
> =====
> 
> Section "Files"
> 
>                         # local font server
>         # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
>     FontPath        "unix/:7100"
>     FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
>         FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
>     FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
>         FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
>     FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
>     FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
>         FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
>     FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
>         FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/CID"
>     FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
>         FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
>     FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
>         FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
>     FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
> EndSection

Did you check if the font server is actually available at port 7100? Are
the "helvetica-..." font names known? (They are aliases for the Nimbus
Sans fonts; you need the packages package "gsfonts" and "gsfonts-x11".)

About two weeks ago someone had a similar issue with GnuCash:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/07/msg00112.html

-- 
Regards,
          Florian